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Information, in all correspondence 

related to this collection. Comments 

received generally will be posted 

without change to regulations.gov, 

including any personal and/or business 

confidential information provided. To 

confirm receipt of your comment(s), 

please check regulations.gov, 

approximately two-to-three days after 

submission to verify posting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Clarence Harrison, Procurement 

Analyst, at GSARPolicy@gsa.gov or 202– 

227–7051. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Purpose 

GSA requires organizations desiring 

to do business with GSA for various 

supplies and services to provide 

procurement-related information 

through solicitations issued in 

accordance with the Federal Acquisition 

Regulation (FAR) Part 12, 14, 15 and 16 

procedures. Using solicitation methods 

such as Requests for Proposals (RFP), 

Requests for Information (RFI), and 

Broad Agency Announcements (BAA), 

GSA requests information from 

prospective offerors such as pricing 

information, delivery schedule 

compliance, and evidence that the 

offeror has the resources (both human 

and financial) to accomplish 

requirements. Much of the solicitation 

information collected is covered by FAR 

clauses and the separate information 

collection approvals associated with 

them. Other GSA solicitation 

requirements call for more detailed or 

technical information to be provided, 

such as project management or 

sustainability plans, and drive the need 

for this information collection. 

B. Annual Reporting Burden 

Respondents: 338,465. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Total Responses: 338,465. 

Hours per Response: 2. 

Total Burden Hours: 676,930. 

C. Public Comments 

Public comments are particularly 

invited on: Whether this collection of 

information is necessary, whether it will 

have practical utility; whether our 

estimate of the public burden of this 

collection of information is accurate, 

and based on valid assumptions and 

methodology; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and ways in 

which we can minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, through the use of 

appropriate technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

Obtaining Copies of Proposals: 

Requesters may obtain a copy of the 

information collection documents from 

the Regulatory Secretariat Division, at 

GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite OMB 

Control No. 3090–0163, Contract 

Solicitation Information, in all 

correspondence. 

Jeffrey A. Koses, 

Senior Procurement Executive, Office of 

Acquisition Policy, Office of Governmentwide Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[OMB Control No. 9000–0153; Docket No. 

2023–0053; Sequence No. 8] 

Submission for OMB Review; Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 11 

Requirements 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DOD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the 

Regulatory Secretariat Division has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) a request to review 

and approve a revision of a previously 

approved information collection 

requirement regarding certain Federal 

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 11 

requirements. 

DATES: DoD, GSA, and NASA will 

consider all comments received by 

December 21, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for this information 

collection should be sent within 30 days 

of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Zenaida Delgado, Procurement Analyst, 

at telephone 202–969–7207, or 

zenaida.delgado@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. OMB Control Number, Title, and any 

Associated Form(s) 

OMB Control No. 9000–0153, Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 11 

Requirements. 

B. Need and Uses 

DoD, GSA, and NASA are combining 

OMB Control Nos. by FAR part. This 

consolidation is expected to improve 

industry’s ability to easily and 

efficiently identify burdens associated 

with a given FAR part. The review of 

the information collections by FAR part 

allows improved oversight to ensure 

there is no redundant or unaccounted 

for burden placed on industry. Lastly, 

combining information collections in a 

given FAR part is also expected to 

reduce the administrative burden 

associated with processing multiple 

information collections. 

This justification supports the 

extension of OMB Control No. 9000– 

0153 and combines it with the 

previously approved information 

collections under OMB Control No. 

9000–0043, with the new title ‘‘Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 11 

Requirements’’. Upon approval of this 

consolidated information collection, 

OMB Control No. 9000–0043 will be 

discontinued. The burden requirements 

previously approved under the 

discontinued number will be covered 

under OMB Control No. 9000–0153. 

This clearance covers the information 

that offerors or contractors must submit 

to comply with the following FAR 

requirements: 

• FAR 52.211–7, Alternatives to 

Government-Unique Standards. This 

solicitation provision permits offerors to 

propose alternatives to Governmentunique standards in response to 

Government solicitations. When an 

offeror proposes a voluntary consensus 

standard as an alternative to a 

Government-unique standard included 

in a solicitation, the offeror must furnish 

data and/or information regarding the 

alternative in sufficient detail for the 

Government to determine if it meets the 

Government’s requirements. This 

provision is prescribed in FAR 11.107 

for use when a solicitation uses 

Government-unique standards and the 

agency uses the transaction-based 

reporting method to report its use of 

voluntary consensus standards to the 

National Institutes of Standards and 

Technology (NIST). This provision is 

optional for use if an agency uses the 

categorical method to report to NIST. In 

accordance with OMB Circular A–119, 

Federal Participation in the 

Development and Use of Voluntary 

Consensus Standards and in Conformity 


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Assessment Activities, and section 12(d) 

of the National Technology Transfer and 

Advancement Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104– 

113, 15 U.S.C. 272 note), agencies must 

use voluntary consensus standards, 

when they exist, in lieu of Governmentunique standards, except where 

inconsistent with law or otherwise 

impractical. The information collected 

from offerors will be used by Federal 

agencies to determine if voluntary 

consensus standards will satisfy the 

Government’s needs for a particular 

solicitation. 

• FAR 52.211–8, Time of Delivery; 

and 52.211–9, Desired and Required 

Time of Delivery. These time of delivery 

clauses may be used by contracting 

officers to set forth a required delivery 

schedule and to allow offerors to 

propose an alternative delivery 

schedule. Contracting officers use the 

collected information to ensure supplies 

or services are obtained in a timely 

manner. 

C. Annual Burden 

Respondents: 1,377. 

Total Annual Responses: 1,377. 

Total Burden Hours: 738.5. 

D. Public Comment 

A 60-day notice was published in the 

Federal Register at 88 FR 62085, on 

September 8, 2023. No comments were 

received. 

Obtaining Copies: Requesters may 

obtain a copy of the information 

collection documents from the GSA 

Regulatory Secretariat Division, by 

calling 202–501–4755 or emailing 

GSARegSec@gsa.gov. Please cite OMB 

Control No. 9000–0153, Federal 

Acquisition Regulation Part 11 

Requirements. 

Janet Fry, 

Director, Federal Acquisition Policy Division, 

Office of Governmentwide Acquisition Policy, 

Office of Acquisition Policy, Office of 

Governmentwide Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Proposed Information Collection 

Activity; Healthy Marriage and 

Responsible Fatherhood Performance 

Measures and Additional Data 

Collection (Office of Management and 

Budget #0970–0566) 

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, 

and Evaluation, Administration for 

Children and Families, Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: The Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), Office of 

Family Assistance (OFA), is requesting 

an extension with changes to its 

approved collection and reporting of 

performance measures about program 

operations, services, and clients served 

through the Healthy Marriage (HM) and 

Responsible Fatherhood (RF) grant 

programs. In an effort to gain a greater 

understanding of how HMRF programs 

influence program participants and staff 

at an individual level, ACF proposes to 

add one open field to the quarterly 

narrative reports to capture information 

about the experiences of HMRF 

participants and/or staff. ACF is 

requesting to extend approval, with the 

implementation of this change, for 3 

years. 

DATES: Comments due within 60 days of 

publication. In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting 

public comment on the specific aspects 

of the information collection described 

above. 

ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the 

proposed collection of information and 

submit comments by emailing 

OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. 

Identify all requests by the title of the 

information collection. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description: ACF proposes to 

continue collecting a set of Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB)- 

approved performance measures from 

all HMRF award recipients. 

The HMRF performance measures 

collect standardized information in the 

following areas: 

• Applicant characteristics; 

• Program operations; 

• Service delivery; and 

• Participant outcomes: 

Æ Entrance survey, with five versions: 

(1) HM Program Entrance Survey for 

Adult-Focused Programs; (2) HM 

Program Entrance Survey for YouthFocused Programs; (3) RF Program 

Entrance Survey for Community-Based 

Fathers; (4) RF Program Entrance Survey 

for Community-Based Mothers; and (5) 

RF Program Entrance Survey for 

Reentering Fathers. 

Æ Exit survey, with five versions: (1) 

HM Program Exit Survey for AdultFocused Programs; (2) HM Program Exit 

Survey for Youth-Focused Programs; (3) 

RF Program Exit Survey for CommunityBased Fathers; (4) RF Program Exit 

Survey for Community-Based Mothers; 

and (5) RF Program Exit Survey for 

Reentering Fathers. 

The measures were developed in 2014 

after extensive review of the research 

literature and recipients’ past measures. 

They were revised in 2020 based on a 

targeted analysis of existing measures, 

feedback from key audiences, and 

discussions with ACF staff and the 2015 

cohort of recipients. OMB approved 

these revised measures in 2021 and has 

approved a handful of non-substantive 

changes since then. 

ACF also proposes to continue the 

OMB-approved quarterly reporting on 

the following measures, with minor 

changes as described: 

• Semi-annual Performance Progress 

Report (PPR), with two versions: (1) 

Performance Progress Report for HM 

Programs, and (2) Performance Progress 

Report for RF Programs; and 

• Quarterly Performance Report 

(QPR), with two versions: (1) Quarterly 

Performance Progress Report for HM 

Programs, and (2) Quarterly 

Performance Progress Report for RF 

Programs. ACF proposes to add a new 

text box to the QPRs to gather 

qualitative narratives of the experiences 

of HMRF participants and/or staff. This 

information will help build ACF’s 

understanding of how HMRF programs 

influence program participants and staff 

at an individual level. 

ACF provides recipients with a webbased performance measures data 

collection system called nFORM 2.0 

(Information, Family Outcomes, 

Reporting, and Management) to improve 

the efficiency of data collection and 

reporting and the quality of data. This 

system allows for streamlined and 

standardized submission of recipient 

performance data through regular 

progress reports and supports recipientled and federal research projects. 

ACF also proposes to continue the 

OMB-approved requirement for 

recipients to document their continuous 

quality improvement (CQI) planning 

and implementation using a CQI plan 

template that is completed outside of 

the nFORM system. 

Respondents: Respondents include 

HM and RF award recipient staff and 

program applicants and participants 

(participants are called ‘‘clients’’). 

Annual Burden Estimates: The 

estimated number of respondents for 

each instrument has been adjusted to 

reflect experiences in the field to date. 

There is no change to the average 

estimated time per response of any 

instrument. 


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